 | Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold Fisch - 1984 - 500 halaman
...the four types above discussed), which have hitherto been considered ingenious inventions of writers, were necessary modes of expression of all the first...words were invented which signified abstract forms or genera comprising their species or relating parts with their wholes. And here begins the overthrow... | |
 | Marcel Danesi - 1995 - 292 halaman
...it follows that all the tropes, which have hitherto been considered ingenious inventions of writers, were necessary modes of expression of all the first...their full native propriety. But these expressions later became figurative when, with the further development of the human mind, words were invented which... | |
 | David Walter Price - 1999 - 356 halaman
...one that made possible the distinction between figurative and literal language. As Vico describes it, "all the tropes . . . were necessary modes of expression...nations, and had originally their full native propriety" (NS 1 409). In other words, the theological poets spoke the world; their utterances made the world;... | |
 | Michael Clark - 2000 - 272 halaman
...the four types above discussed), which have hitherto been considered ingenious inventions of writers, were necessary modes of expression of all the first...words were invented which signified abstract forms or genera comprising their species or relating parts with their wholes. And here begins the overthrow... | |
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From all this it follows that all the tropes (and they are all reducible to the four types above discussed), which have hitherto been considered ingenious inventions of writers, were necessary modes of expression of all the first poetic nations, and had... 